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Re: Sextants with Polarizing filters
From: Mike Hannibal
Date: 2006 Jan 27, 10:09 +1100
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From: Mike Hannibal
Date: 2006 Jan 27, 10:09 +1100
And whilst we are completely off the topic:
orthogonal when applied to concepts is, somewhat unusually, used to describe concepts that are separate and independent of each other.
Maybe like this thread....
Mike -;)
Peter Fogg <fthre@OPTUSNET.COM.AU> wrote:
orthogonal when applied to concepts is, somewhat unusually, used to describe concepts that are separate and independent of each other.
Maybe like this thread....
Mike -;)
Peter Fogg <fthre@OPTUSNET.COM.AU> wrote:
Thanks for that elucidation, Ken.
In anyone is wondering, as I was, orthogonal means quite literally 'at a
right angle' from the Greek 'ortho', meaning right, and 'gonia', meaning
angle.
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